1. Seventh International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing (P2S2) PavanBalaji Yong Chen Abhinav Vishnu P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/12/2014)

2. Organizing Committee  Steering Committee:  William Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research  Program Co-chairs  Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory  Yong Chen, Texas Tech University  Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory  Publicity Chair  Wesley Bland, Argonne National Laboratory P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/12/2014)

3. P2S2 2014 Statistics P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/12/2014)  25 paper submissions  P2S2 prides itself with a thorough review process  Each paper received at least 4 reviews, most had 5 reviews, some had 6 reviews  PC Meeting in Mid May for paper decisions; lots of discussion for each paper. We had to make some tough choices.  13 papers were accepted (52% acceptance rate)  21 PC Members  Many thanks for their hard work and diligent reviews!  Thanks to Wesley for undertaking the publicity/web chair role!

4. P2S2 2014 Logistics P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/12/2014)  Five sessions:  We will start with a keynote talk by Prof. Wu-chun Feng  Four sessions for regular technical paper presentations  For Presenters:  Please meet session chair before the session starts  Please provide a short bio  Presentations may need to be copied to a common presentation laptop before the session (please check with your session chair!)  Please send your slides to p2s2-chairs@mcs.anl.gov and we will post slides on program page

5. P2S2 2014 Sessions P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/12/2014)  Session 0: Keynote  Time: 8:15am – 9:15am  An Ecosystem for the New HPC: Heterogeneous Parallel Computing  Prof. Wu-chun Feng, Virginia Tech

6. P2S2 2014 Sessions (contd.) P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/12/2014)  Session 1: Tasking and Memory  Time: 9:15am – 11:15am (break at 10:15am)  Session Chair: Hari Subramoni, Ohio State University  “Local Search to Improve Task Mapping”, Evan Balzuweit, David Bunde, Vitus Leung, Austin Finley, and Alan Lee  “A Framework for Tracking Memory Accesses in Scientific Applications”, Antonio Pena and Pavan Balaji  “Checksumming Strategies for Data in Volatile Memories”, Humayun Arafat, Sriram Krishnamoorthy, and P. Sadayappan

7. P2S2 2014 Sessions (contd.) P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/12/2014)  Session 2: Heterogeneous Computing  Time: 11:15am – 12:45pm  Session Chair: Michela Taufer, University of Delaware  “Pruning Strategies in Adaptive Offline Tuning for Optimized Composition of Components on Heterogeneous Systems”, Lu Li, Usman Dastgeer, and Christoph Kessler  “Energy and Power Characterization on Parallel Programs Running on Intel Xeon Phi”, Joal Wood, Ziliang Zong, Qijun Gu, and Rong Ge  “Delivering Parallel Programmability to the Masses via the Intel MIC Ecosystem: A Case Study”, Kaixi Hou, Hao Wang, and Wu-chun Feng

8. P2S2 2014 Sessions (contd.) P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/12/2014)  Session 3: Data Movement and I/O  Time: 13:45pm – 16:15pm (break at 15:15pm)  Session Chair: Antonio Pena, Argonne National Laboratory  “Using Working Set Reorganization to Manage Storage Systems with Hard and Solid State Disks”, Junjie Chen, Jialin Liu, Philip Roth, and Yong Chen  “Benchmarking the Performance of Scientific Applications with Irregular I/O at the Extreme Scale”, Stephen Herbein, Scott Klasky, and Michela Taufer  “Improving Data Movement Performance for Sparse Data Patterns on Blue Gene/Q Supercomputer”, Huy Bui, Eun-Sung Jung, Venkatram Vishwanath, Jason Leigh, and Michael Papka  “Decoupled I/O for Data-Intensive High Performance Computing”, Chao Chen, Yong Chen, Kun Feng, Yanlong Yin, Hassan Eslami, Rajeev Thakur, Xian-He Sun, and William D. Gropp

9. P2S2 2014 Sessions (contd.) P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/12/2014)  Session 4: Programming Models  Time: 16:15pm – 17:45pm  Session Chair: Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico  “A Distributed Dataflow Model for Task-uncoordinated Parallel Program Execution”, Lucas Wilson and Jeffrey Von Ronne  “Beehive: A Framework for Graph Data Analytics on Cloud Computing Platforms”, Anand Tripathi, Vinit Padhye, and Tara Sasank Sunkara  “NestedMP: Taming Complex Configuration Space of Degree of Parallelism for Nested-Parallel Programs”, Jiangzhou He, Wenguang Chen, and Zhizhong Tang

10. P2S2 2013 Journal Special Issue (with Journal of Supercomputing: JoS)  Special Issue on “Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software”  Editors: Abhinav Vishnu, Yong Chen, and Pavan Balaji  By-invitation only special issue for P2S2 2013 accepted papers  Paper notifications are out; still waiting for the special issue to be published  Expected publishing date: Dec. 2014 P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/12/2014)

11. P2S2 2014 Journal Special Issue (with Journal of Supercomputing: PARCO)  Special Issue: “Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software”  Editors: Pavan Balaji, Yong Chen, and Abhinav Vishnu  By-invitation only for P2S2 2014 accepted papers  All 13 accepted papers were invited; all of them intend to submit  Deadline: Oct. 1st  Journal requirements on acceptance:  Needs to have 30% additional material  New results, more analysis, etc., are OK for the additional material  No strict plan for the number of accepted papers  We are internally planning to notify authors by early 2015  But journal reviews are often delayed, so bear with us if we are late  Target date for special issue publication mid 2015 P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/12/2014)

12. Plans for the Eighth P2S2 Workshop, 2015 P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/12/2014)  Approved for continuing to be associated with ICPP 2015, Beijing, China  Journal Special issue is planned (journal will likely be JoS) Please Get Involved ! Paper submissions Workshop attendance Advertising Please Get Involved ! Paper submissions Workshop attendance Advertising

13. P2S2 2014 Keynote P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/12/2014)  An Ecosystem for the New HPC: Heterogeneous Parallel Computing  Prof. Wu-chun Feng  Virginia Tech